Door & Dough
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Medium: Moving Image
Size: 1 min 21 sec
‘Door & Dough’ is illustrated by prototypes of the rigid behavioural city, such as ancient PRIENE. neatly arranged grip of city planning is similar to rules applied to women in the domestic space. An example of this would be the Japanese de-clutter expert Marie Kondo. She is well known for folding clothes in a minimalist way, making them suitable for those storage boxes or drawers which have fixed boundaries, usually square or rectangular in shape. Her folding behaviour (city structure) and role of domestic work (status anxiety), aroused my interest. I experience the folding process through kneading dough with my own hands (representing my capacity of doing). It's a process of repeatedly folding the outer skin of the substance inwards, each layer investing time, air and energy to the processed layer. According to Michel Serres, a lump of worked dough is not merely a mixture, but a negentropic niche: it has a future. Housework has always been considered a woman's obligation until now, and house chores always happen indoor. The door has the function of stopping and separating, an antisocial object, protecting and barricading us in. It breaks space in two, private (domestic) and public (society), and they require "passwords" to slide between that public space is the space of the urban grid and private space is the space of other geometric rules. They are governed by the same logic of spatial arrangement but separated by the door.